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🔶 Shadow Roles: AWS Defaults Can Open the Door to Service Takeover

Post walking through multiple real-world scenarios, including how a malicious Hugging Face model can escalate privileges, how limited Glue access can impact other services, and how a single default role can ultimately lead to full control of an AWS account.

https://www.aquasec.com/blog/shadow-roles-aws-defaults-lead-to-service-takeover/

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🔶 AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk

The «Account Assessment for AWS Organizations» tool, designed to audit resource-based policies for risky cross-account access, ironically introduced cross-account privilege escalation risks due to flawed deployment instructions.

https://www.token.security/blog/aws-built-a-security-tool-it-introduced-a-security-risk

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🔶 How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront

How to help prevent hotlinking by using header inspection in AWS WAF, while still taking advantage of the improved user experience from a CDN such as CloudFront.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-by-using-aws-waf-amazon-cloudfront-and-referer-checking/

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🔴 MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data

Learn how MCP Toolbox for Databases can help you deliver secure and standardized ways to have your agents communicate with one another and access enterprise data.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/

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👩‍💻 Understanding the threat landscape for Kubernetes and containerized assets

Microsoft released and updated the threat matrix for Kubernetes, an active knowledge base for security threats that target Kubernetes clusters, to systematically map the attack surface of Kubernetes.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/23/understanding-the-threat-landscape-for-kubernetes-and-containerized-assets/

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🔶🔷🔴 Threat Modelling Cloud Service Providers in 2025

With the US Government acting in an erratic and hostile manner towards its traditional allies, it makes sense for companies not typically subject to US Jurisdiction to reconsider their threat models when using the big three cloud providers. All of them are US-based companies, and all three conduct a substantial amount of business with the US Government.

https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/threat-model-2025/

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🔶 Secure Cross-Account Access is Tricky. Four Common Dangerous Misconceptions

Post diving into cross-account trust policies, explaining four major misconceptions repeatedly seen in organizations, which often lead to the creation of cross-account trust paths from less secure accounts to more sensitive accounts.

https://www.token.security/blog/secure-cross-account-access-is-tricky-four-common-dangerous-misconceptions

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🔶 Gaining Long-Term AWS Access with CodeBuild and GitHub

Another example of how attackers can abuse legitimate AWS services for persistence.

https://medium.com/@adan.alvarez/gaining-long-term-aws-access-with-codebuild-and-github-873324638784

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🔶 Path Traversal Vulnerability in AWS SSM Agent's Plugin ID Validation

A Path Traversal vulnerability found in the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Agent, specifically within the ValidatePluginId function of the pluginutil.go file.

https://cymulate.com/blog/aws-ssm-agent-plugin-id-path-traversal/

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🔶 AWS SNS Abuse: Data Exfiltration and Phishing

Post diving into publicly known SNS abuse attempts and Elastic's knowledge of the data source to develop detection capabilities.

https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/aws-sns-abuse

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🔶 IAM Role Trust Policies: Misconfigurations Hiding in Plain Sight

Even small misconfigurations in role trust policies can unintentionally create critical privilege escalation risks in AWS, such as allowing low-privileged users to assume admin roles.

https://www.token.security/blog/iam-role-trust-policies-misconfigurations-hiding-in-plain-sight

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🔶 How to use the new CloudTrail network activity events for AWS VPC Endpoints

How AWS VPC Endpoint CloudTrail logs can help you troubleshoot endpoint policies and strengthen your network's security against data exfiltration.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/aws-vpc-endpoint-cloudtrail

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🔶 Automating AWS Private CA audit reports and certificate expiration alerts

Guide through a custom automation workflow that harnesses AWS Private CA audit reports to monitor certificate expirations proactively.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/automating-aws-private-ca-audit-reports-and-certificate-expiration-alerts/

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🔴 Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era

Cloud WAN is a fully managed, reliable, and secure enterprise backbone to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/connect-globally-with-cloud-wan-for-the-ai-era/

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🔴 Introducing Google Unified Security

Google introduced Unified Security, a new security solution that combines Google Cloud's security products with Mandiant's expertise to provide a comprehensive approach to threat intelligence, security operations, cloud security, and secure enterprise browsing.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/driving-secure-innovation-with-ai-google-unified-security-next25/

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🔶 Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest

Post discussing Pinterest's experiences in identifying the challenges associated with EC2 network throttling, as well as how they developed network performance monitoring for their EC2 fleet.

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/handling-network-throttling-with-aws-ec2-at-pinterest-fda0efc21083

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🔶 Planning for your IAM Roles Anywhere deployment

Before you start using IAM Roles Anywhere, it's important to plan how you'll integrate it with your PKI and with your applications running outside of AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/planning-for-your-iam-roles-anywhere-deployment/

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🔶 Invoking Misconfigured API Gateways from Any External AWS Accounts

Did you know a misconfigured private API Gateway can be invoked from any AWS account?

https://www.offensai.com/blog/invoking-misconfigured-api-gateways-from-external-aws-accounts

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🔴 ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run

The vulnerability could have allowed to abuse Google Cloud Run permissions in order to pull private Google Artifact Registry and Google Container Registry images in the same account.

https://www.tenable.com/blog/imagerunner-a-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-impacting-gcp-cloud-run

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🔶 How does Sendbird secure AWS?

How Sendbird matured its AWS security posture, empowering developers to deploy in a way that's both user-friendly and secure.

https://sendbird.com/blog/aws-security

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